Finite element analysis of deformation of pile groups for Xiangshui offshore wind power station

Xiangshui offshore wind power station is located in shore water near Chengang of Jiangsu province. As the pile groups of the wind turbines have complicated engineering characteristics, their design is one of the technical difficulties of the project. Deformation behaviors of the piles foundation of Xiangshui 2MW wind turbine generator system are computed and analyzed under static loads and cyclic wind loads. The results show that deformations of the foundation are allowable; and the deformations due to static loads are comparatively smaller than that under the containing cyclic wind loads condition. With the depth increasing, the horizontal displacement and its influence range decrease; while the maximal vertical settlement is steady and vertical influence range increases. Deformation characteristics of pile-soil system depend not only on the loads combination of the subject, but also on the soil conditions.     

Evolution of the Archean crust in Finland

An Archean age for Finnish rocks in the range 2500–3000 Ma has been determined north of the NW-striking Ladoga—Raahe shear belt. The Archean may be divided into two main units: the granitoid association and the greenstone-belt association. The complex is characterized by stockwork tectonics. The granitoid association forms the basement infrastructure and the greenston-belt association forms the suprastructure which is present in synforms between granitoid diapirs. The infrastructure has been subjected to ultrametamorphism, and the second and third generation palingenetic magmas so formed have intruded the suprastructure. The granitoid association contains widespread migmatized relicts of the greenstone-belt association, indicating that the latter originally covered much larger areas, but the granitoids are also thought to be partly transformed primitive ensialic crust on which rocks of the greenstone-belt association were deposited. The Archean rocks have been deformed in at least four subsequent phases, of which part developed in Proterozoic time. The youngest deformation is the overthrust of the granulite belt of Lapland towards SSW. NWSE striking transcurrent faults played a major role in Proterozoic time and affected cratonized Archean crust. On the whole the greenstone belts in eastern and northern Finland form a NNW-trending zone 750 km long. On a geochemical basis the volcanic rocks of the greenstone belts can be divided into two groups: tholeiites with a low potassium content and extremely low aluminium content and a calc-alkalic group with some alkalic affinities.     

青藏高原边界层高度特征对大气环流动力学效应的数值试验

利用NCAR的全球气候模式 (CCM3) 及第二次青藏高原边界层观测试验的研究结果, 对青藏高原上大气边界层高度的作用进行了研究, 分析了夏季青藏高原地区与长江流域上空的环流状况。研究表明:青藏高原的边界层高度特征对高原东南部地区以及长江流域出现强烈的垂直上升运动及其低层辐合、高层辐散存在着显著的动力效应, 深厚的高原边界层特征将使长江流域夏季区域性的云量及降水明显增加, 河套地区与黄河流域的夏季云量及降水有所减少。     

Remapping Fictional Worlds: A Comparative Reconstruction of Fictional Maps

ABSTRACT

This article presents a quantitative analysis of fictional maps and their relation to historic maps from different periods. Fictional maps are maps of imaginary territories. This type of map is now common in fiction, but they arose relatively late, in the second half of the nineteenth century, and are considered an independent branch of cartography today. They stand out through the way they are published because they are component parts of books and not independent cartographic works, and therefore their creators are not cartographers but rather the authors of these books. Fictional maps are mostly subordinate to the story, but they serve to give a sense of historical authenticity and draw the reader into the story. Without networks of coordinates and with labels such as ‘the end of the world’, they are spatially indeterminate, but they establish a connection between the fictional landscape and its identity. This study deals with 89 fictional maps from recent children’s and young adult literature. First we present a historical overview of these works and fictional maps, and then a cartographic analysis of fictional maps. We examined seventy-seven books with fictional maps and evaluated the maps according to five groups of standard cartographic elements: natural elements, built elements, toponyms, mathematical elements, and explanatory elements. We discuss the differences between cartographic representation of fictional maps and historic maps, and build a cartographic model based on the frequency of cartographic elements to put fictional maps into historic and geographical contexts.     

The Thermodynamic Structure of Arctic Coastal Fog Occurring During the Melt Season over East Greenland

An automated method to classify Arctic fog into distinct thermodynamic profiles using historic in-situ surface and upper-air observations is presented. This classification is applied to low-resolution Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) soundings and high-resolution Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS) soundings in low- and high-Arctic coastal and pack-ice environments. Results allow investigation of fog macrophysical properties and processes in coastal East Greenland during melt seasons 1980–2012. Integrated with fog observations from three synoptic weather stations, 422 IGRA soundings are classified into six fog thermodynamic types based on surface saturation ratio, type of temperature inversion, fog-top height relative to inversion-base height and stability using the virtual potential temperature gradient. Between 65–80% of fog observations occur with a low-level inversion, and statically neutral or unstable surface layers occur frequently. Thermodynamic classification is sensitive to the assigned dew-point depression threshold, but categorization is robust. Despite differences in the vertical resolution of radiosonde observations, IGRA and ASCOS soundings yield the same six fog classes, with fog-class distribution varying with latitude and environmental conditions. High-Arctic fog frequently resides within an elevated inversion layer, whereas low-Arctic fog is more often restricted to the mixed layer. Using supplementary time-lapse images, ASCOS microwave radiometer retrievals and airmass back-trajectories, we hypothesize that the thermodynamic classes represent different stages of advection fog formation, development, and dissipation, including stratus-base lowering and fog lifting. This automated extraction of thermodynamic boundary-layer and inversion structure can be applied to radiosonde observations worldwide to better evaluate fog conditions that affect transportation and lead to improvements in numerical models.     

各向异性对积石峡面板堆石坝渗流的影响分析

面板堆石坝的坝料在填筑过程中由于碾压等原因而表现出较强的各向异性。采用固定网格有限元全场各向异性渗流分析方法,对积石峡面板堆石坝进行了正常和面板出现裂缝等非常工况条件下的二、三维渗流分析,计算了大坝渗流量和渗流场,探讨了面板裂缝的位置对渗透的影响。计算结果表明,在正常工况条件下,大坝具有良好的渗透稳定性。面板不同的裂缝位置对大坝渗流影响不同。     

粉质黏土中单桩竖向承载力的离心模型试验研究

桩基础研究的核心问题是桩承载力和桩-土相互作用,包括桩周土的变形和饱和土中孔隙水压力的变化。通过离心模型试验的方法,利用竖向压桩设备把桩压入土体,研究饱和及非饱和粉质黏土中单桩的竖向承载力,以及加载过程中桩周土体的变形和孔隙水压力的变化。粉质黏土饱和后,桩基的承载特性表现出软化的特点,且桩基的承载能力比非饱和粉质黏土中的桩基小,非饱和粉质黏土的压桩试验中桩基没有出现明显的极限承载力。桩基的加载特性与桩周土的变形响应具有显著的相关性,桩的加载过程对桩周土体变形的影响有一定范围,超过这个范围,土体的变形可以忽略不计。饱和粉质黏土中桩基的加载对桩周土体孔压的变化也有一定的影响范围,与桩周土体的变形范围体现出类似的规律。距离桩较近时,桩周土的变形较大;距离桩越远,土体的变形受到桩的影响越小。     

饱和砂土地基海上风机筒形基础离心模型试验研究

筒形基础具有造价低、结构简单等优点,作为海上风机基础有很大的应用前景。针对海上风机筒形基础所受的主要荷载,采用偏心轮和气缸实现在离心模型试验中对筒形基础所受循环荷载的模拟。在此基础上进行饱和砂土地基中海上风机筒形基础受力变形的离心模型试验,测量地基与基础的应力、变形和孔压。根据测量结果分析筒形基础的受力变形特性,表明筒形基础的临塑荷载大约是极限荷载的一半;单调和循环水平荷载作用下筒形基础发生明显的倾倒破坏,变形主要发生在筒形基础的周围。